Rural Economy, Environment And Society

Projects

Projects per year 2012 2018 2019 2022 2027

• 67 Active
• 164 Finished

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• Commercial

  Rural poverty with a focus on children and young people: an evidence review

  Glass, J.

  1/06/20 → 30/09/20

  Project: Commercial

  • Children 100%

• Reviewing, assessing and critiquing the evidence base on muirburn to inform the development of a licensing approach in Scotland

  Holland, J., McCracken, D., Glendinning, J. G., Buckingham, S. & Pollock, M.

  6/04/22 → 14/06/22

  Project: Commercial

  • Licensing 100%

• Developing an inland flood/hydrological system and indicators to monitor and inform land management in Montserrat

  McVittie, A., Hamilton, A., Gibson-Poole, S. & Botero Degiovanni, H.

  20/09/21 → 31/01/22

  Project: Commercial

  • Montserrat 100%
  • Natural Capital 100%
  • Model 100%
  • Monitor 50%
  • Flood 50%
• Consultancy

  Provision of a livestock enterprise costing and carbon footprint survey and analysis to provide benchmark information for cattle and sheep farmers in Scotland.

  Riddell, I., Hill, G., Bothwell, C., Inman, G. & Sykes, A.

  1/10/20 → 31/10/22

  Project: Consultancy

  • Sheep 100%
  • Cattle 50%
• Other

  Developing a decision support tool to inform land management scenarios in Montserrat

  McVittie, A., Hamilton, A., Gibson-Poole, S. & Botero Degiovanni, H.

  26/01/21 → 26/03/21

  Project: Other

  • Montserrat 100%
  • Belief 50%
  • Land Management 50%
  • Decision Support Tools 50%
  • Land Use 50%

• Understanding the effects of land management scenarios on reef resilience in Montserrat

  McVittie, A.

  20/09/21 → 31/01/22

  Project: Other

  • Montserrat 100%
  • Belief Networks 50%
  • Land Management 50%
  • Reef 50%
  • Ecosystem Service 50%

• IPM T&T: Environmental Land Management - Integrated Pest Management Test and Trial

  Creissen, H., Meador, E. & Evans, A.

  1/12/20 → 31/10/21

  Project: Other

  • Land Management 100%
  • Public Goods 95%
  • Delivery 87%
  • Management 77%
  • Pests 75%

• Dandelion : Dandelion Festival 2022

  Burnett, F., Rudman, H. & Vichos, R.

  1/10/21 → 31/07/22

  Project: Other

  • Festivals 100%
  • Challenges 66%
  • Northern England 33%
  • Isolation Method 33%
  • Engage-ment 33%
• PhD project

  The significance of plant interactions in the design of breeding programmes

  Hoad, S. & Scott, P.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/09/17 → 18/11/22

  Project: PhD project

• Research

  Improving Reporting of Land Market Transactions

  McMorran, R.

  20/11/21 → 30/06/22

  Project: Research

  • Activity 100%
  • Datum 75%
  • Scotland 52%
  • UK 50%
  • Interviews 50%

• Historical changes in climate/snow cover in Cairngorm Mountains and to estimate future response

  Spencer, M.

  7/02/20 → 9/03/20

  Project: Research

• Identifying the 'hot' spots and 'not' spots of emergency and everyday resilience centres in Scotland

  Meador, E.

  1/11/18 → 1/05/19

  Project: Research

• Sustainable environmental remediation of abandoned lead mining sites

  Griffiths, B.

  1/11/14 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• RESAS Strategic Research Programme 2016-21 WP2.3 Productive and sustainable land management

  Wall, E., Smith, S., Nicoll, L., Parker, J., Robertson, D., Davidson, R., Donbavand, J., Anderson, C., Roehe, R., Harrison, B., Purcell, L., Duthie, C., Gunn, G., Pritchard, T., Jones, S., Bagnall, A., Vosough Ahmadi, B., Archibald, I., Rees, B., Eory, V., Glenk, K., Edwards, T., Buckingham, S., March, M., Broadbent, C., Cloy, J., Hargreaves, P., Wishart, H., Griffiths, B., Fox, N., Sparks, N., Shrestha, S., Banos, G., Henry, M., Watson, C., Dickinson, J., Topp, K., Burnett, F., Kyle, J., Denholm, S., Dewhurst, R., Lawson, D., McCubbin, I., Dwyer, C., Holland, J., McCracken, D., Barratt, A., Havis, N., Stanisz-Migal, M., Miller, G., Bowen, J., Hutchings, M., Creissen, H., D'Eath, R., Baddeley, J., Houdijk, J., Coffey, M., Morgan-Davies, C., Walker, R., Turner, S., Haskell, M., Barnes, A., Athanasiadou, S., Cole, L., Sandilands, V., McLaren, A., MacLeod, M. & Smith, L.

  1/04/19 → 31/03/20

  Project: Research

  • Methanogenesis 100%
  • Nested Gene 83%
  • Gene 83%
  • Methanogen 50%
  • Fungus 50%

• Understanding the Relative Cost-effectiveness of Sea-lice Treatments for Farmed Salmon Production

  Toma, L., Shrestha, S., Reeves, A., Barratt, A., Leinonen, I. & Boerlage, A.

  1/08/19 → 31/07/20

  Project: Research

• Transition paths to sustainable legume based systems in Europe (TRUE)

  Rees, B., Toma, L., March, M., Akaichi, F., Shrestha, S. & Barnes, A.

  European Commission

  1/04/17 → 30/09/21

  Project: Research

  • Legume 100%
  • Human Nutrition 44%
  • Crops 43%
  • Europeans 38%
  • Whirl 34%

• Soils research to deliver Greenhouse Gas Removals and Abatement Technologies (SOILS-R-GGREAT)

  MacLeod, M., Rees, B., Eory, V. & Moran, D.

  Natural Environment Research Council

  20/06/17 → 20/06/21

  Project: Research

  • Soil Organic Carbon 100%
  • Carbon Sequestration 93%
  • Soil 66%
  • Soil Carbon 61%
  • Greenhouse Gas 54%

• Livestock's role in food system resilience in remote, upland regions

  McCracken, D., Shrestha, S., Thomson, S., Holland, J., Morgan-Davies, C., Barnes, A. & McLaren, A.

  B.b.s.r.c.

  1/11/17 → 31/05/22

  Project: Research

  • Sheep 100%
  • Beef 80%
  • Cattle 72%
  • Transhumance 72%
  • Greenhouse Gas 72%

• Adoption of Nutrient MGT plans by EU Farmers & the impact on GHG Emissions

  Eory, V. & Barnes, A.

  IPSOS IBERIA

  23/01/19 → 22/02/20

  Project: Research

• Study of the adoption of GHG mitigation technologies by EU livestock farmers

  Eory, V. & MacLeod, M.

  IPSOS IBERIA

  1/04/20 → 28/02/21

  Project: Research

• Legumes Translated

  Revoredo Giha, C., Topp, K., Dewhurst, R., Costa Font, M., MacPherson, L., Houdijk, J., Walker, R., Hargreaves, P., Lawson, D., Newbold, J. & Watson, C.

  European Commission

  1/11/18 → 30/04/22

  Project: Research

  • Pollinator 100%
  • Cropping System 86%
  • Mixtures 57%
  • Anthesis 42%
  • Flowers 42%

• CxC GHG emissions reduction targets in Scottish agriculture

  Eory, V., Rees, B., Barnes, A. & Topp, K.

  3/08/21 → 26/11/21

  Project: Research

  • Greenhouse Gas Emission 100%
  • Targets 100%
  • Greenhouse Gas 100%

• Preparing the evidence base for post-Brexit agriculture in Scotland - Case studies on alternative payments

  Watson, C., Shrestha, S. & Sellars, A.

  1/05/19 → 30/11/19

  Project: Research

• Understanding precision livestock farming adoption in the US swine industry: Examining needs, perceptions, and willingness to pay of users and consumers

  Turner, S., Vigors, B. & Akaichi, F.

  1/02/21 → 31/01/23

  Project: Research

  • Consumers 100%
  • USA 50%
  • Application 50%
  • State 50%
  • Adoption 50%

• Japan - Shared Challenges on Depopulation across Island Communities

  Atterton, J., Lamont, K., Gkartzios, M. & Dilley, L.

  7/03/22 → 31/05/22

  Project: Research

  • Islands 100%
  • Japan 100%
  • Communities 50%
  • UK 50%
  • Policy 50%

• Growing the Community Business Network UK-wide Understanding the ‘cold spot’ areas where Plunkett Foundation supports fewer community businesses

  Atterton, J.

  8/11/21 → 31/01/22

  Project: Research

  • Comprehension 100%

• Integrated disease management and reduced IPM

  Bingham, I.

  MAINS OF LOIRSTON TRUST

  1/04/17 → 1/09/20

  Project: Research

• Novel methods for understanding the causes and control of a malting barley grain defect called ?skinning?

  Hoad, S.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/15 → 31/07/20

  Project: Research

• Managing risk through integrated farm management, diversification strategies and education

  Barnes, A.

  5/02/18 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• The development of an alternative method to high concentration CO2 for the commercial stunning of pigs

  Baxter, E., Akaichi, F. & Farish, M.

  19/03/18 → 31/07/20

  Project: Research

  • Pig 100%
  • Hypoxemia 50%
  • Death 40%
  • Sclera 27%
  • Conjunctiva 27%

• Understanding farmer wealth, well-being and welfare : a comparative study of Scottish and Irish beef farmers

  Barnes, A.

  1/10/16 → 30/09/20

  Project: Research

• KENYA: Herd and animal level interventions for GHG emission mitigation

  MacLeod, M.

  6/01/14 → 29/03/19

  Project: Research

• Decarbonising global agrifood

  MacLeod, M.

  Scottish Government: Rural & Environment Science & Analytical Services

  20/04/17 → 30/09/20

  Project: Research

• NZL: Carbon net zero & UK livestock systems

  Rees, B., Buckingham, S., Dewhurst, R., Sykes, A. & Bell, J.

  1/05/20 → 31/08/20

  Project: Research

  • Livestock 100%
  • Net Zero 66%
  • Carbon 66%
  • Area 66%
  • United Kingdom 66%

• Productivity of Scottish Agriculture

  Thomson, S., Bell, J., Bevan, K., McMillan, J. & Barnes, A.

  1/04/19 → 31/03/20

  Project: Research

• Impact of changes in the CAP regime on rural (non-agricultural) businesses

  Thomson, S., Atterton, J., Barnes, A. & McMillan, J.

  SCOTTISH ENTERPRISE

  18/04/17 → 31/05/20

  Project: Research

  • Data Visualization 100%
  • Turnover 80%
  • Knowledge 52%
  • Agribusiness 52%
  • Surveys 50%

• Policy Relevant Projects Funding for EAEDC

  Atterton, J.

  SFC GRANT

  1/04/17 → 30/04/21

  Project: Research

• Review of international experience of community, communal and municipal ownership of land

  Atterton, J. & McMorran, R.

  1/11/18 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• The implications of Brexit for rural Scotland Budget

  Atterton, J.

  1/08/16 → 31/07/19

  Project: Research

• Oilseed Rape Genetic Improvement Network OREGIN

  Burnett, F. & Havis, N.

  1/03/18 → 31/03/23

  Project: Research

• Bean breeding for adaptation to a changing climate and post-conflict Colombia

  Barnes, A. & Botero Degiovanni, H.

  1/04/19 → 30/09/21

  Project: Research

  • Climate Change 100%
  • Farmers 95%
  • Varieties 79%
  • Municipality 75%
  • Homicide 75%

• IRELAND: Understanding farmer decision making in relation to nutrient to improve knowledge transfer methodologies

  Barnes, A.

  1/11/14 → 30/03/19

  Project: Research

• Identifying the 'hot' spots and 'not' spots of emergency and everyday resilience centres in Scotland

  Barnes, A., Atterton, J., Thomson, S. & McCracken, D.

  1/10/18 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• Innovation and collaboration to mitigate food waste in the fruit and vegetable supply chain

  Toma, L.

  1/10/18 → 30/09/22

  Project: Research

• To support the South Atlantic NCA project by providing ecosystem services valuation and Bayesian modelling expertise

  McVittie, A. & Glenk, K.

  18/06/18 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• Causes and control of grain skinning in malting barley: phenotyping and genetic analysis

  Hoad, S.

  10/01/13 → 30/06/19

  Project: Research

• Variety trials for AHDB's Recommended List: trial crop - Winter wheat

  Hoad, S.

  AHDB Cereals & Oilseeds

  1/09/18 → 31/08/19

  Project: Research

• Evaluating the significance of agri-supply chains in rural economies

  Thomson, S., Revoredo Giha, C., Atterton, J., Jones, S. & Barnes, A.

  20/12/18 → 30/04/19

  Project: Research

  • Input-Output Table 100%
  • UK 75%
  • Economics 50%
  • Agriculture 50%
  • Specific Industry 50%

• Attitudes towards land reform: Public priorities and focus for the future

  McMorran, R., Craigie, M., Maynard, C., Thomson, S. & Glass, J.

  Ipsos MORI

  5/02/20 → 30/11/20

  Project: Research

  • Research 100%
  • Land Reform 75%
  • Evidence 50%
  • UK 50%
  • Public Attitude 50%

• GrassRoots: A participatory approach to drive improvements in grass breeding and productivity

  Lawson, D., Forster, J., Burnett, F., Meador, E., Galloway, L. & Riddell, I.

  Scottish Government

  1/10/19 → 30/09/20

  Project: Research